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By Nate Raymond NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) - A self-described anarchist from Brooklyn who refused to testify before a federal grand jury thought to be investigating a 2008 bomb explosion in New York's Times Square was sent to jail on Tuesday after being found in civil contempt. Gerald Koch, 24, had been asked last week to testify before a grand jury that his lawyer says is believed to be probing a small bomb detonation outside a U.S. armed forces recruiting station.

"Political theater" as a rubric covers a range of narrative tropes, but two current productions provide very different lenses for looking at the corrosive effects of achieving - and hanging onto - power at any cost. "Leaves, Trees, Forest" Charles is the quintessential "young man in a hurry" in Paul Notice's "Leaves, Trees, Forest," now in a world premiere with MPAACT under Carla Stillwell's direction. A recent graduate of Georgetown, Charles (Trigney Morgan) has big ambitions for getting a legislative staff position with Congressman Clayton (Marc A. Rogers)

ATHENS (Reuters) - Two Greek anarchist groups claimed responsibility on Thursday for an explosion at an Athens shopping center this week that fuelled fears of rising political violence. The two previously unknown groups, "Wild Freedom" and "Instigators of Social Explosion" said they had staged the attack to protest against wealthy "capitalists" and raids against squats in the center of Athens this month. Police could not confirm the authenticity of the claims. "For us, the mall and every mall is a cemetery for people and real values.

NEW YORK - The Weathermen and their “Days of Rage” in 1969 emerged from the dimly remembered past during the 2008 presidential campaign when fevered attempts were made by the Republican Party to closely link Barack Obama with Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Judy Clark, who were involved in those violent events in Chicago. More than four years later, these are generally regarded on both sides of the aisle as tired lines of attack and, self-evidently, they did not keep Obama from winning the White House, twice.

(Adds details on pleas, background) By Kim Palmer AKRON, Ohio, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Three self-described anarchists pleaded guilty on Wednesday in an Ohio federal court to plotting to blow up a four-lane highway bridge near Cleveland in April, authorities said. Douglas Wright, 26, Brandon Baxter, 20, and Connor Stevens, 20, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted use of an explosive device to destroy property used in interstate commerce, authorities said in a statement.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Four soldiers in Georgia who belonged to an anarchist militia that wanted to overthrow the U.S. government killed a former soldier and his girlfriend because he had learned of their plans, prosecutors said on Monday. Prosecutors revealed the suspected motive as one of the soldiers pleaded guilty on Monday to voluntary manslaughter and other charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors over the December 5, 2011, shooting deaths of Michael Roark, 19, and his girlfriend, 17-year-old Tiffany York.